July 22 2020: IBM and CBSE  have  announced the winners of the 2020 ‘AI for better India’ hackathon focussed on leveraging AI to solve real world problems. IBM mentors from the software labs were instrumental in empowering students with industry skills to ideate, design, build solutions and present to clients. Of the 464 AI project submissions received, 103 projects submitted by 260 students were selected for expert mentoring by IBM mentors. These projects were onboarded to the Hacker Earth mentorship platform as part of the ‘AI for Better India’ challenge by IBM. The finalists graduate to 2020 IBM EdTech Youth Challenge.

• 1st Place: ‘HEALTHHub - AI Health Kit for India’s rural areas’ by Akanksha Rani, Yash Pandey, Anish Ahuja from Apeejay School, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi
• Joint 2nd Place: ‘MEDBOx - Smart Medicine Box’ by Madhav Malik, Luvya Aggarwal from Jaypee Public School, NOIDA
• Joint 2nd Place: ‘Saylus – AI-enabled Women Safety Platform’ by Bhavye Khetan from Delhi Public School, Gurgaon